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rough in

Verb

Meaning

prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. Hannibal Buress

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women. Stevie Smith

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it. William Shakespeare

Homeless people sleeping rough in London, photographed on January 16 2020. Source: Internet

Rightly or wrongly, the army as an institution particularly is more dreaded than the other arms of the military on the assumption that it is peopled by personnel who are craggy and rough in interactions with the civil society. Source: Internet

Two days later, on February 4, officers from Emergency Response Team D at Bexleyheath found Byron sleeping rough in Welling Town Centre. Source: Internet

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